Improvement in bed-bottoms



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r\|0.138,30. PatenfedMay 873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT O ELI K. GARRETSON AND WOODARD FULGHUM, OF WINCHESIMPROVEMENT IN BED-BOTTOMS.

To all whomzt may concern:

Be it known that we, ELI K. GARRETsoN and WooDARD FULGHUM, both of thetown of Winchester, in the county of Randolph, in the State of Indiana,have invented an Improvement in Bottoms forBedsteads, Lounges, andSeats; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawingmaking a part of this specification, in which like letters ot referencerefer to like parts, and in which- Figure l represents a sectionalelevation; Fig. 2, a plan.

This invention consists of a combination of the usual bedsteads1ats witha short vibrating lever at each end of said sla-ts, and on which thelatter rest. The lever at each end of said slat or slats rests upon aspring or rubber support, which rests in turn upon a crossbar supportedby the bedstead-frame. The further end of each lever enters a staple orother socket on the bed-head or on the foot of the bedstead. rIhisarrangement allows the slats considerable vertical play, and by adjusting the support nearer to or further from the vibrating ends of the leversmore or less vertical play is conferred upon them and the supportedslats.

One of the forms in which We construct this bed or lounge bottom we willnow describe: In the drawing, A A are the sides ofthe bedstead; B B, thehead and foot boards, C C, transverse supports for the levers E E E,which rest at either end on the sides A A, one near the head-board theother near the foot board, along which they are movable. `D D D areseveral slats extending` longitudinally of the bedstead, each slathaving slots c a at either end to admit from beneath the free end of ashort horizontally-placed lever, E, which has a cross pin or head, d, onthat end, and

a spring, rubber, or other firm e` stic support, b, sustained by one ofthe er s-pieces C C. The remoter end of each lever is ngaged within astaple, e, or similar device `o retain that end steadily, but allowing acer in amount of vertical vibration to that end ngaged with the slat.The levers may eac n` s be set upon rigid supports,and their further ndsnext the bedstead be engaged by spring gor other elastic device ordevices, and th intermediate support be moved to such poi tas will bestsubserve the required amount springiness or vertical play.

It will be seen that the slat `D D D, rest-r ing as they do upon thevibrati s ends of their respective levers E E E, are fr e to move up anddown with considerable s ringiness, or vertical play for their entirelen th, according to the amount of pressure there n, and entirelyindependent of each other i such action. The cross-pieces C C whichsuport the levers are moved along the supporting `edges at each end toadjust the play of their respective levers.

pin, d, in a lever, E, the levers E, the leversupporting blocks b b,block-su orts G C, and the staples e e e, in eombinatio stead, sofa, orseat, substanti the purposes described. l s

In testimony that We claim he foregoing spring-bed or seat-bottom Welave hereunto set our hands this 24th day of s I arch, 1873.

ELI K. GAR l ETSON.

p WOODARD ULGHUM.

ly as and for Witnesses I. C. ENNIs, A. J. STAKEBAKE.

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